Viva la Roma!!!

We took a train from Florence to Rome. It was pretty easy to do. The train station in Rome is inside the city enough to make it easy to walk to your next destination. Saying Rome is big would be an understatement. You would have to add busy, crowded, and chaotic. The city operates on some sort of rule set that isn't written down but understood by the residents. We saw a lot the first day so here are some pictures:

Here's the Florence train station.  Pretty easy to understand and clean too.

View from our hotel room in Rome.  It's within walking distance for a lot of things here.

The Colosseum was a short walk down a very large street and through the biggest traffic circle we've ever seen.

Kate inside the structure.  The Italians are having some national cultural week so admission to a lot of these sites is free right now.  Lucky us!

This place is huge!!!

Kate about to go up Palatine Hill.

Ceasar's house.

The part of the Roman Forum.

Another section of the Roman Forum.

And the big picture.  Next we headed to the Pantheon.

There it is.  It's still impressive.

There's the hole.  How'd they do that?

Raphael's tomb.  We should see a lot of him at Vatican City.

It's still a used church on the inside.  Here's a picture of the alter area.

More to come later.  Right now we have to get off to Vatican City.